Yum! I was looking for a way to use up some peaches and this is what I found! Ice cream covered in lemon marinated peaches, buttery graham cracker crumble and a cinnamon syrup. The little crunchies make the sundae. If you...’re smart you’ll double the recipe. Honestly, you really don’t need the syrup. It’s great with or withoutFor the vanilla ice cream I used the Williams-Sonoma Ice cream starter. The few egg based ice creams I’ve made have not impressed me. They are overly creamy...

Chow Bella is offering a special program just for Scouts. Our 1 1/2 hour class will help fulfill requirements for a cooking bagde. We offer healthy recipes and fruit smoothies. Call us for more details: (925) 878-9932

Yankee Pier Fund-Raiser and More…
Enjoy a seafood lunch or dinner at Yankee Pier in Lafayette on Sept. 24, and benefit a good cause at the same time.
Twenty percent of sales from that entire day will be donated to the Taylor Family Foundation.
The non-profit partnered with the East Bay Regional Park District in 1998 to build Camp Arroyo in Livermore. The camp serves Northern California children suffering from life-threatening and chronic illnesses, as well as kids with developmental disabiliti...

Then, you might just get a boost to help that dream come true.
The Oregon Travel Commission is hosting a contest to give away seven “cuisinternships” (that’s culinary internships to those in the know). Yes, seven winners will be selected to spend one all-expense-paid week shadowing an expert in his or her preferred culinary craft. The internships up for grabs are:
• Artisan Food Producer: Become a culinary artisan in Southern Oregon with chocolatier Jeff Shepherd of Lillie Belle Farms a...

Peace, Love & Chow:  Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto is really a state of mind. On the one hand, it's the section of Shattuck Avenue bordered by Rose Street on the north and Hearst on the south. On the other, it's an approach to life (and to food, which is probably more important to a true Gourmet Ghetto-ite) in which the pursuit of quality is absolutely uncompromising. Every bit of food must be well chosen for the dish, at its peak of flavor, organically grown (preferably by a small grower persona...

I have made tomato pie before, but this is by far the best recipe I’ve come across. With the farmers market being full of amazing heirloom tomatoes, now was the perfect time to make it! One of my favorite ways of enjoying tomatoes is a simple baguette with evoo and balsamic and sliced tomatoes all topped off with some cheese and this pie incorporates most of those ingredients and adds in some bacon to make it even better! It may not be the healthiest of pies but how can you go wrong with to...